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VOLUME 101 ISSUE 142

TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2008

UF adds fee option to provide budget relief

* FEE LETS COLLEGES
CHARGE FOR EQUIPMENT.

By LIA GANOSELLIS
Alligator Writer
eganosellis@alligator.org

Equipment-use fees that UF
piloted this semester in f6ur col-
leges will be made available across

the university this fall as part of a
larger effort to generate funds in
light of major budget cuts.
The fee allows UF colleges and
departments to charge students
per credit hour for "significant
equipment" in a course, which
could include microscopes, musi-
cal instruments and video equip-
ment, as long as the college shows

"I'm no longer going to sit
around and wait for the
state."
Bernie Machen
UF president

records proving the equipment is
used.
The specific amounts of the fees

depend on the equipment covered.
The charges will include costs for
repair, replacement and insurance
for class equipment and will only
apply to undergraduate students.
SEach college must fill out an ap-
plication form before implement-
ing a fee. College deans will have
authority to lower proposed fees,
and the Office of the Provost must

approve each amount.
In a meeting with Alligator re-
porters on Thursday, UF President
Bernie Machen said funds gener-
ated through fees would likely be-
come an important resource for UF
to get back in the black following
an anticipated blow to its budget.

SEE FEE, PAGE 10

ELECTIONS 2008

Dems' ads hostile in Pa.

By KATIE GALLAGHER
Alligator Writer
kgallagher@alligator.org

With the approach of today's
Pennsylvania presidential primary the
first Democratic primary since March 11
- campaigning by both candidates has
gotten aggressive.
Referring to a highly publicized, com-
ment recently made by her opponent, an
advertisement endorsed by Sen. Hillary
Clinton opens, "Barack Obama said that
people in small towns 'cling to guns or
religion...as a way to explain their frustra-
tions....'"
The ad features men and women look-
ing into the camera saying things like, "It

just shows how out of touch Barack Obama
is," and "The good people of Pennsylvania
deserve a lot better than -what Barack
Obama said."
Sen. Barack Obama
released an ad calling
Clinton's recent ads
j "eleventh-hour smears
paid for by lobbyist
money."
The Pennsylvania
primary, which experts
Clinton expect Clinton to win,
has carried increasingly more weight for
both candidates, said Michael Heaney, a
UF political science assistant professor.
SEE PRIMARY, PAGE 10

By RACHEL ARROYO
Alligator Writer

Andrew Enriquez, a third-year his-
tory student, had 212 friends, pumped iron
whenever he could and loved listening to
Tupac according to his Facebook profile.
When 20-year-old Enriquez died in a
car accident in September 2007, many of
those 212 friends turned to his abruptly
abandoned profile for another glimpse at
his warm smile.
The dead are memorialized through
prayer cards, candlelight vigils, flower gar-
dens and scholarship funds.
But today's youth are turning to more
unconventional means of remembering
those who have died.
They're memorializing their loved ones
through Facebook.

Eight months later, Enriquez is still be-
ing tagged in pictures and receiving wall
posts from friends.
Sentiments like "missing you," "think-
ing of you" and "can't believe it's been
eight months, home" serve as a gentle re-
minder that Enriquez was, and
On the stillis,lovedbymany.
Web Wayne Griffin, associate
director of the UF Counseling
Center and a specialist in loss and bereave-
meit, said that Facebook is a great tool for
not only remembering the dead but for
helping those who are grieving to express
their emotions in a healthy way.
"In the virtual world, we try to create
worlds or existences that parallel our own
but last longer," Griffin said.

SEE FACEBOOK, PAGE 4

N A local boy
who has high-
functioning
autism is learn-
ing to cope with
his disorder and
the world around
him. See photo
story, Page 8.

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Former UF
swimmer Ryan
Lochte returned
to Gainesville to
train for the 2008
Olympics. He-will
square off with
Michael Phelps at
the U.S. Olympic
trials in June.
See story, Page 21.

At the beginning of the fall, all
it took was two clicks from UF's
home page to call up your favorite
UF trustee and ask him or her your
burning question. But not today.
UF's Board of Trustees, the uni-
versity's highest governing body,
used to provide phone numbers
for each trustee except for the
Student Body president on its
Web site.
But since September 2007, ques-
tions have gone through Brian
Beach, the board's liaison, and Beach
has forwarded them to the trustees.
Beach said he took the phone
numbers off the Web site because
trustees were receiving disruptive
phone calls at home in the middle
of the night.
But only four out of the 12 phone
numbers formerly listed were home
phone numbers.
He said the sudden influx of calls
might have been due to the Tasering
of a UF student by University Police
Department officers at a campus

speech.
Beach said the system was also
changed because he knows when
the trustees are reachable, so he can
direct questions to the trustees who
are available and can provide the
best answers.
The site currently lists one UF
phone number and address, which
connects to Beach's secretary for
board activities, he said.
If someone wants to e-mail ma-
terials to
UF the board,
Administratioa he said he
offers his
e-mail ad-
dress and then forwards the mes-
sage to the trustees.
He said he never screens the
questions.
. "I don't look at something and
say, 'Oh, that's not worthy of trustee
contact,'" he said. "That's never go-
ing to happen."
Although Beach and the trustees
stand by the new system, three of
Florida's public universities provide
direct contact information for their
trustees and six others list a group
e-mail address.

Only one other Florida college,
New College of Florida, does not
provide any contact information on
its board's Web site.
Beach said he didn't feel that
listing the trustees' e-mail addresses
was necessary, and he hasn't heard
any complaints.
Dianna Morgan, the board's
chairwoman, said she hasn't heard
any concerns either, and she said
she feels the board is still adequately
available.
"I certainly feel like given the
communication I've received in the
last few weeks that there is ample
access," Morgan said.
Between the impending bud-
get cuts and the Students for a
Democratic Society's hunger strike,
she said she responded to about 20
letters and e-mails last week.
Morgan's home number was one
of the four listed before the change,
and she said she remembers two
nights in particular when she re-
ceived calls every hour until about
4 a.m.
She said calls to a trustee's busi-
ness could be just as disruptive
because they interrupt the trustees'

jobs.
"We love our work at the univer-
sity, but we do recognize that we all
have other responsibilities in life,"
she said.
Cynthia O'Connell, another
trustee, works as senior vice
president of a public relations firm.
O'Connell said she used to receive
unexpected calls at her office about
UF business, which made it difficult
to balance her work duties.

She said the new system is more
efficient because Beach can direct
questions to her when she's avail-
able.
She still receives the same num-
ber of questions a week any-
where from two to 10 depending on
the time of year, she said.
"Anybody who's needed to talk
to me has had no trouble finding
me," she said. "I don't feel like we're
isolated."

Facebook memorials help students stay connected to friends who have died

FACEBOOK, from page 1

Flowers set out for a person are eventually
going to wilt and die, but Internet profiles
have longevity, he said.
Enriquez's older sister, Amanda Enriquez,
comments on his page at least once a week,
she said.
She writes simply to say "hello," to tell
him her plans for the day or to wish him a
"Happy Easter."
Before making a recent visit to his
gravesite, she left a message that read, "go-
ing to go visit u now..i love you andy!"
She has yet to figure out her brother's
account password, so for now his profile
remains exactly how he left it, and she takes
solace in reading other people's messages to
her little brother.
"Seeing people write on it makes me feel
better," said Enriquez's sister, a student at
the University of Miami. "I know my mom
got a Facebook because of it."
She said her mother, Sue Enriquez,
opened the account so that she could read
the affectionate messages regularly left by
his friends on the popular social network-
ing site.
When a young student dies, many friends
and family members are not present but still
want to feel connected, even if they can't
make the memorial services, Griffin said.
Online communities, like Facebook and
MySpace, allow them to be involved, even
from a distance.
"It provides a way for them to express
themselves as if they were there; a virtual
reality," Griffin said.
But, in some cases, even the virtual reality
is short-lived.
Facebook policy expects profiles of the
dead to be turned into memorials, but is
vague about how long profiles will be kept
active.
"When we are notified that a user has
died, we will generally, but are not obligated
to, keep the user's account active under a
special memorialized status for a period of
time determined by us to allow other users
to post and view comments," according to
Facebook's Terms of Use.
Even so, Facebook administrators re-
ally have no way of knowing that a user has
died unless someone notifies them, so these
profiles may be overlooked for an indefinite
amount of time. This is good for Nicole
Martingano, a junior studying criminology,
who uses these virtual memorials to stay
connected.

When UF student Eric Gold died,
Martingano lost both a therapist and a
friend.
"One day you're working with that per-
son, and the next day you see them on the
front page of the Alligator," she said.
Gold died at Shands at UF in January 2008
after a long struggle with lymphoma cancer.
"One day you're working with that
person, and the next day you see
them on the front page of the
Alligator."
Nicole Martingano
UF criminology junior

Though Gold, a second-year law student,
had been in and out of hospitals his entire
life, he never let his health problems get in
the way, Martingano said.
The two met after Martingano was hit by
a drunken driver in 2006. After coming out of
a coma, she was left with severe brain dam-
age and facial paralysis.
Gold was Martingano's speech therapist
and spent countless hours teaching her how
to speak and swallow again.
"He was somebody who saw people
through," she said.

While nothing will bring Gold back,
Martingano can recall fond memories with a
click of the mouse.
He's still eating at The Swamp Restaurant
with friends, posing in cap and gown at
graduation and hugging his girlfriend.
Still images keep him alive in the minds
of all those leaving comments on his page,
including Martingano, who left one recently
thanking Gold for the role he played in help-
ing her recover from her accident.
"It was just me thinking about Eric," she
said.
Griffin's dealings with those in mourn-
ing have taught him that many people find
it physically hard to express their feelings
following a tragedy. Facebook allows those
who bottle their emotions to express them
in a relatively private yet public manner,
Griffin said. Two-way dialogue once took
place strictly in person.
"Growing up, that kind of connection oc-
curred in small towns at viewings," he said.
Now two-way dialogue can occur over
the computer in the form of written commu-
nication, where healing can occur between
friends and family members who are oceans
apart. Sentiments that may have been hard
for some to share in person can be expressed
over the computer without a spoken word,
Griffin said.

Photo Illustration by Harrison Diamond / Alligator Staff
A message written on Andrew Enriquez's Facebook wall by his sister Amanda Enriquez
after his death.

While personal profiles tend to contain
messages addressed to the one who has
passed away, group profiles provide a
chance for family and friends to share their
feelings by rallying behind the person being
remembered.
Healing can be facilitated through shar-
ing anecdotes and observations about loved
ones, Griffin said.
Catherine Barclift, a graduate of Florida
State University and a new law student at
UF, was killed in November 2007 after she
was hit by a car while jogging. That day, stu-
dents created a group called "Im Praying for
Catherine Barclift," and though she passed
away the next day, the group still has 862
members.
Two other groups, "Petition for an
Honorary J.D. (Juris Doctor) for Catherine
Barclift" and "I'm running for Catherine,"
were also created in her honor.
Jillian Levy, a senior law student, was
Barclift's ambassador at law school orien-
tation and was immediately struck by her
enthusiasm.
"My favorite thing about Catherine was
how naturally magnetic she was," Levy said.
"People were just drawn to her because she
was so friendly, energetic and genuinely
kind. Everyone loved being around her be-
cause she was just so happy all of the time."
When Barclift died, she was training for
a marathon with some friends from law
school.
"I'm Running for Catherine" was a group
created for those who planned on running
in the race to honor her, Levy said. To Levy
and many others, Facebook provided a way
for family and friends to remember Barclift
together.
"I think the most important thing about it
was that it was a place to grieve with other
people who knew her and understood the
silly little stories and memories that we
missed the most," Levy said.
In her most recent message on the "I'm
Running for Catherine" page, Levy thanked
those who participated in the run for Barclift,
saying that Barclift would have loved the
involvement.
While friends and family will grow old,
Enriquez, Gold and Barclift will be forever
young in the minds of those who remember
them through their Facebook profiles.
"For me, sometimes I'll find myself just
thinking about Catherine and will pull up
her profile," Levy said. "Even if we're not
all talking about it everyday, you can see on
the groups or her profile that we still think
about her a lot."

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TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2008 ALLIGATOR, 5

IFAS professor receives UF's highest faculty honor

By KATIE SANDERS
Alligator Writer
ksanders@alligator.org

At age 16, Lynn Bailey represented her
home state of South Carolina in a nation-
wide 4-H competition for her research on
nutrition and healthy dieting.
About 50 years later, Bailey, now a UF
food science and human nutrition professor,
is still reeling in awards for her studies on
nutrition, vitamins and diets.
Bailey was named this year's UF Teacher
Scholar of the Year, UF's highest award for
faculty. To Bailey, the award is a lifetime
achievement and a lesson in humility be-
cause she knows the caliber of those she was
chosen over, she said.
Bailey said her 4-H experiences are what
motivated her to become a college professor
and make nutrition, specifically a vitamin
called folate, which can prevent birth de-
fects, the focus of her life's work.
Bailey has been teaching for 30 years at
UE She also collaborates with the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, Peking
University Health Science Center and a re-
search group at UF's Institute of Food and
Agricultural Sciences to study nutrition in
Northern China.
Consumption of folate is low in that area

because of limited foods rich in folic acid,
such as fruits and vegetables. Deficiency
leads to increased numbers of children born
with spina bifida, a disease that causes pa-
ralysis and brain damage.
Bailey said her favorite part of her job is
incorporating her real-life research in China
to support her classroom lessons at UF, she
said.
"I'm a better teacher because of my re-
search," she said.
Bailey was joined by her husband, Gary
Rodrick, also a professor in the depart-
ment, and her 86-year-
UF old mother from South
Academics Carolina at a Thursday
awards ceremony at
Emerson Alumni Hall.
In addition to receiving a gold medallion
framed in a glass case and a plaque describ-
ing her honor, Bailey also received $5,000
that she hasn't decided how to spend.
"I haven't gotten beyond just enjoying
the moment," she said. "IFAS is very proud
of this award."
Jimmy Cheek, senior vice president of
IFAS, said in a telephone interview that he
has known Bailey for more than 30 years.
"It couldn't have happened to a more
competent faculty member and a nicer per-
son," Cheek said.

Harrison Diamond / Alligator Staff
Lynn Bailey poses in her lab in the Food Science and Human Nutrition building Monday
afternoon. Bailey was selected as the UF Teacher Scholar of the Year for 2008.

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UF's ongoing campus sustainability efforts and the progress
that has been made to reduce the university's large environ-
mental impact.
Since 2001, UF has adopted Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) criteria for design and construc-
tion for all major new construction and renovation projects on
campus.
Last year, the UF's Physical Plant Division pledged a com-
mitment to green cleaning practices throughout the 900-plus
buildings maintained by the department. That included "green-
er" training programs for custodial supervisors and staff and
reducing the amount of harmful compounds used in cleaning.
The Office of Sustainability has also worked with dining
services to develop a plan for implementing sustainability
into the food we eat on campus, including regional sourcing
of food, green catering, energy conservation and transportation
impacts. Gator Dining is also in the process of switching over
all of its disposable service items to biodegradable and recycled
options.
While all these big changes are a great way for one of the
largest campuses in the nation to foster a green image, it's im-
portant to us that the little things are not overlooked.
Though the larger initiatives are more visible and certainly
benefit the sustainability goal, we all know that the little things
add up, too.
For example, while the UF Sustainable Purchasing Directive
suggests that offices purchase recycled paper and durable
and reusable goods, they are as of now not required to do
so. Environmentally preferable products are to be purchased
whenever practical. With the hundreds of printers across cam-
pus and thousands of pages printed each day, we think it's im-
portant that a higher priority is placed on reducing the amount
of wasted paper and other office supplies. Purchasing recycled
products should be the norm.
That being said, we also think it would be an environmen-
tally sound practice if professors began to encourage their
students to hand in papers and projects printed on both sides
of the page. This would essentially cut the amount of paper
students use in half and is a relatively easy and small change
that could have a potentially large impact if implemented across
campus. To take it a step further, professors could take the same
approach when printing tests and syllabuses and reduce the
amount of waste even more.
Another point of wastefulness is campus maintenance. Any
student would be hard-pressed to find a day on campus when
someone is not utilizing a leaf blower to keep the UF grounds
aesthetically pleasing. This is a concentrated waste of energy
and resources. Random trees and bricked landscape areas also
seem to appear overnight. We certainly enjoy having a pretty
place to walk to class that is filled with lush trees and plants,
but we don't understand why so much energy is expended on
maintaining the green vegetation and lawns. The vast expanse
of St. Augustine grass is not sustainable it requires regular
watering in the heat, doesn't produce seed and must be treated
with herbicides and pesticides. It would make more sense to
seed grass or maybe just make peace with the stubborn.dan-
delions.
Little changes, such as presenting an information booklet
to incoming freshmen about living green on campus, increas-
ing the number of recycling bins, not running the escalators at
Library West all night and keeping every building on campus
at a steady 75 degrees could go a long way to keep with the
university's green efforts and encourage student participation
all year round.

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www.alligator.org/opinion

After students accepted the small equipment-use fee, the
administration quickly took the next logical cost-cutting step:

Column

Compassion needed to overcome past

N nature takes wood in one of two ways: either fire not.
bums it or water rots it away. If that wood forms the This is where painful hi
walls of a building, the way it happens can make all really does toy with us. There
the difference in the world. universal way to grieve. On(
So it is with the Cotton Club here in Gainesville. Don't needs to destroy every men
feel bad if you've never heard of it neither had I until from a relationship after a dev
recently. The Cotton Club was the name of an old one-room Gerald Liles ing break up. Another girl can
hall in the 1950s that now sits falling apart on Southeast letters@alligator.org to 'their song' on the mix CD th
Seventh Avenue. boyfriend made for her with(
Originally built at Camp Blanding in Starke as a military causing any pain at all. I have
post warehouse, it was sold, taken apart and moved board- detect any common rhyme or reason in coping with so
for-board to Gainesville after the war in 1946. and from what I can tell, neither have psychologists.
Five years later, the room that once housed mail was I should point out that the random pedestrian my f
filled with jazz music. The Cotton Club joined what came spoke to was ultimately speaking for himself he
to be called the Chitlin' Circuit, a group of venues black mu- have been misrepresenting the sentiment of the maj
sicians could play at as racist segregation raged. It hosted of the neighborhood. Even if that were the case thou
greats like James Brown, B.B. King and Brook Benton. It still can't deem his feelings illegitimate. The problem i
was very successful, but the city refused to renew its license there.
- too many impressionable white UF students were going So what should be done with the Cotton Club? Hon
there. I don't think there is a "should" there. The question is
By 1953, the music had stopped. will we do?
Well, 55 years later, a movement was created to restore Pain, like wood, always goes away with some cor
the Cotton Club to the way it looked in its heyday. But if tion of fire and water: anger and tears. There is no
you think the entire black community in the neighborhood dimension there
around it is a fan of the idea, think again. If the hall where James Brown clutched his heart
A friend of mine who volunteers with the Powell Center then motioned as if dealing it out like poker cards is
for Sustainability had a conversation with an African into a museum, for some it will be an ugly reminded
American local during his site survey. With great respect, ark a m ae permanent. If the building is dem
he let my friend know that he and most of the black com- many will feel an important reminder of a rich history
munity he knew would prefer to see the building burned many will feel an important reminder of a rich hito
down. be lost, and they will be upset.
To avoid misinterpretation, he was not speaking liter- Whatever the scenario, each side needs to extend
ally. He just meant that he didn't want to preserve a pain- passion to the other. This is the case where sympathy
ful reminder from a time when poor black citizens' deaths eclipse misunderstanding. As Mr. Brown bellowed mi
did not even warrant acknowledgement in The Gainesville call, "Please, please, please!"
Sun's obituaries. Gerald Liles is a history and religion senior. His column
I disagree with him, but can I blame him? Of course pears on Tuesdays.
The views expressed here are not necessarily those of the Alligator.
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Letters to the Editor
Column on pope was ignorant
I was disappointed, but not
surprised, by Vincent Massaro's
column Monday about the
pope's U.S. visit. It confirmed
what many people know but do
not want to admit: Anti-Catholic
speech is one of the remaining ac-
ceptable forms of discrimination
in America today.
The title would have readers
believe that Mr. Massaro has
reasonable concern over the exor-
bitant reception of Pope Benedict
XVI in our country.
However, if you read his

column, you would have been
treated to an incoherent and ig-
norant diatribe against not only
the pope but the Roman Catholic
Church and all Catholics of good
faith. Not only was his indict-
ment of the pope based mainly
on the actions of others (CNN
commentators, spectators, etc.),
but Massaro also tastelessly re-
duced the Catholic liturgy to a
"shindig" or a "boring" sporting
event.
If there is any redeeming value
to be found in Monday's column,
it is at the end, when he suggests

that the Church shot
to help the poor. H
attempt at compassic
ly be taken seriously
a shameless display
ranted disdain, disr
quite frankly, bigotry

Other issues surround
Despite all of t
views that could ha'
cussed regarding the
Mr. Massaro chose to

uld do more lessly instead. There were so
however, this many issues deserving attention,
on can hard- and yet all Mr. Massaro could
amidst such seem to focus on was the pope's
Sof unwar- bling.
respect, and, I couldn't care less about the
pope as a religious or political
Mark LaBelle figure. However, the space Mr.
2FA Massaro is afforded could have
been put to valuable use for the
id pope visit discussion of a myriad of philo-
he different sophical issues surrounding the
ve been dis- pope's visit.
pope's visit, For example: What asso-
Sbabble aim- ciation, if any, is appropriate for
a sitting president to have with

a religious leader? Should the
pope's own beliefs implore him
to hock his bling to feed a few
hungry mouths? What is the
pope's responsibility to molesta-
tion victims of American priests?
Surely any of these questions
would have been a more effec-
tive use of column inches than
the inane ramblings that I can
only assume were a half-hearted
attempt at humor. I've come to
expect more from such a distin-
guished paper.
Rob Myers
Gainesville resident

Guest Co;'i :

Unrealistic cultural expectations of beauty unfair to women

You've seen them at the Plaza of the
Americas: Student Government-
sponsored billboards, in an effort
to boost self-esteem, encouraging women
to love their bodies, claiming that "diets
don't work" and assuring everyone that
confident women who don't worry about
looking like supermodels are sexier than
those who do.
Self-esteem and confidence are won-
derful to have, but they don't tell the
whole story. The truth is, regardless of
how we feel about ourselves, women are
judged for our appearances, and we face
material and social consequences if we
don't conform to the culturally accepted
standard of beauty
A 2004 study by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics confirmed this: Overweight and
obese white women get paid less than
their thinner counterparts, while white

men don't face the same discrimination.
No amount of self-confidence in the world
will make up for getting paid less for do-
ing the same work.
For women, maintaining our appear-
ance to fit into a standard of beauty is
like another job. It requires time spent on
hair care, putting on makeup and shop-
ping for and picking out the right clothes
- and sometimes, these beauty rituals
can be downright painful (bikini waxes,
anyone?).
Beauty standards are often based on
classist and racist ideas; in other times,
heavier women were preferred because it
indicated that one had access to adequate
food.
Now, thin and tan are the standards
because they indicate access to money
and time for expensive health foods
and gym memberships. If you're thin,

Campus NOW however, it doesn't
Speaking Out end there. Women
still face pressure to
have a full bust and
"curves." Regardless of what kind of bod-
ies we have, women still face pressure to
conform to an impossible standard few
can achieve without surgery or airbrush-
ing. The pursuit of beauty is endless for
women; cosmetics is a multi-million dol-
lar industry, and these corporations know
that playing to an audience of women
who face discrimination based on their
looks will help them move products.
Sexism in our society helps these in-
dustries grow into what they are today.
The problem with self-esteem cam-
paigns is that they treat women's inse-
curities about their looks as individual
problems, when in reality it's a collective
problem oppressing women as a whole.

,An individual woman can choose
not to wear makeup or worry about her
weight and have all the self-confidence
in the world, but self-confidence won't
stop her from facing discrimination in the
workplace or from her family.
There's nothing wrong with working
out and eating healthily or enjoying shop-
ping and wearing makeup.
What is wrong is the expectation that
women do these things, and that we face
material and social consequences if we
don't conform.
To explore these issues further, join
UF Campus NOW tonight at 8 p.m. at the
Civic Media Center for a screening of the
film Killing Us Softly 3 and a discussion of
beauty standards afterward.
Claire Beach, Katie Walters and Shannon
Boyer are members of the UF Campus
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Even though he sees things
differently, Tyler Johnson, 9, is not
lost in his own world. Diagnosed
with high-functioning autism,
Tyler loves to socialize with others
and excels in his areas of interest.
A main component of autism is
obsessions or preoccupations with
particular objects. Tyler is fascinat-
ed with shopping carts and spends
a lot of time at the supermarket
selecting the "perfect cart."
He is very smart and remembers
details that many others forget. He
loves cars and enjoys drawing. He
has no problem understanding

math and science, but because of
his autism, language processing
skills are weaker and social inter-
actions are a challenge
Tyler gets along well with his
family and makes friends pretty
easily. He is home-schooled by his
mother at their home in Southwest
Gainesville and attends several
types of therapy.
Although every day is a strug-
gle, Tyler's mother says he's mak-
ing improvements interacting with
the world around him.
PHOTOS AND TEXT
BY MARIANNE LIJEWSKI

TOP: While his grandmother
and twin brother, Corey, play
basketball behind him, Tyler
draws on the driveway. Even
though Tyler is.a social child,
there are times he prefers to
do his own activities.
LEFT: While shopping at
Publix, Tyler searches for the
perfect Pop-Tarts, which is
one of his favorite breakfast
foods. He got the nametag
from his sister, Linzy, who is
an employee there.

TOP: Fascinated by shopping carts, Tyler peeks through one at Publix
to decide if it is a keeper.
ABOVE: Tyler's brother, Corey (left), asks Tyler why he didn't attend
Corey's basketball game. The loud noises from the gym, especially
the whistles, irritate Tyler and keep him from going inside.

w -
Even though Tyler likes socializing with other children, he is troubled by the speed of the playground
carousel at Littlewood Elementary School. When he is able to control the speed of the carousel, he
feels at ease.

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CITY COMMISSION

City moves forward

with one-stop center

-City commissioners voted 5-2 at a spe-
cial meeting Monday night to change the
land-use designation for the location of
a proposed one-stop homeless center at
3335 N Main Terrace.
At the same meeting, they voted to
wait four to six months before beginning
to lease the building that would serve as
the center's facility.
The proposed site has met controversy
as residents of nearby communities have
opposed the location.
"It just doesn't do us justice as a com-
munity to continue this failure to act,"
Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan said at the
meeting.
The site, which was selected in March
2007, will offer services including meals,
counseling, showers and laundry facili-

ties. Commissioners Rick Bryant and Ed
Braddy opposed the motion.
"I can't think of any location that
doesn't work as much as this one,"
Bryant said.
"It just doesn't do us justice as
a community to continue this
failure to act."
Pegeen Hanrahan
Gainesville mayor

Commissioners have looked into al-
ternative sites for the center. They said
Monday that one of the options, located
on Northwest 53rd Avenue, was no lon-
ger available.
KATIE GALLAGHER

As the United States enters the sixth year
of the war in Iraq, a UF organization wants
to install a memorial for local veterans who
have served the country in the past 63 years.
The Collegiate Veterans Society wants
to place a memorial in the Reitz Union
Amphitheater recognizing all UF and
Gainesville veterans but will focus on-post-
World War II veterans, said Daniel Wojcik,
the organization's president.
Wojcik said modem veterans aren't rec-
ognized on campus as the only two veterans
memorials on campus Ben Hill Griffin

Stadium and Century Tower are dedi-
cated to those who served in World War I and
World War II.
"Our goal is not to make any political
statement," he said. "We just want to recog-
nize the sacrifice and work that University of
Florida Gators have made overseas."
The organization still needs to present the
memorial plans to various university com-
mittees to have it approved.
Eddie Daniels, the Reitz Union's executive
director, said a lot questions about the project
still need to be answered.
"A lot of things need to be worked out,"
Daniels said. "How do you identify persons
that will be recognized? There are a number
of logistical questions that need to be an-
swered."
Because this project is unique, there is no
certain path to its approval, he said.

A campus master-plan committee has to
look at the plans, and a number of other of-
ficials must review the project, including the
vice president of student affairs, before it is
approved, he said.
Wojcik said the memorial plans include
five pillars, two flagpoles
and a floating fountain in
the pond.
17 The flags and pillars
S would be installed in front
of the rail that surrounds
the pond, and a floating
fountain would shoot out
Wojcik a plume of water and have
orange-and-blue lights.
Billy Brame, president of Brame Architects,
has decided to do the project proposal for the
memorial for free.
For Brame, the memorial will not only

be dedicated to his service in the Navy from
1969 to 1975 but also to the service of his step-
son, Jeffrey M. Wershow, who was killed in
Baghdad in July 2003.
"I think the memorial fountain will help
people understand the sacrifices veterans
make, and it will be a physical manifestation
of that," Brame said.
The organization estimated the cost of
the memorial will be between $60,000 and
$80,000, but that isn't definite because it is
not sure if it will receive more donations, he
said.
Once the project proposal is completed,
the organization will go before the UF
Student Senate and request funds to help pay
for the project.
"We want to increase the beauty and us-
ability of that area on campus and hope to
leave it nicer than we found it," he said.

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Recent poll predicts Clinton win in Pennsylvania

Unclear how much

new fee would raise

FEE, from page 1

"It's something we're going to see more of," Machen
said. "I'm no longer going to sit around and wait for
the state."
Machen said he predicts UF will have to cut about
$50 million from its budget next year.
The exact amount will be released
at the end of the state Legislature's
spring session.
UF has already begun to enact
similar student charges not covered
by tuition.
UF implemented a transcript fee
Machen this semester, charging $6 per tran-
script for current students and $12 for students who are
no longer registered at UF. Machen said that fee should
generate up to $1 million every year.
Because the specific amounts of equipment fees
depend on each college's proposals, it is not yet known
how much money they will bring in.

PRIMARY, from page 1

A poll conducted Monday
by Quinnipiac University found
Clinton leading Obama 51 percent
to 44 percent with a three-point mar-
gin of error,,
For Obama, Heaney said, a loss to
Clinton could undermine the lead he
has established so far.
For Clinton, a win is necessary to
maintain a reasonable hope of win-
ning the Democratic nomination.
In the face of necessity, both of
the candidates have turned to more
negative campaigning, Heaney said.
While the ads seldom convince
voters to favor candidates, he said,
they can be successful in convincing
them to second guess an on-the-
fence decision..
The negative ads can also be at-
tributed to the candidates' similar
political stances, said Daniel Smith,
a UF political science associate pro-
fessor. These have led them to create
ads that attack each other based on

personal rather than policy issues.
Candidates have also taken ad-
vantage of each other's recent blun-
ders, Smith said.
For example, while Clinton
took advantage of Obama's com-
ment about citizens of small towns,
Obama capitalized on Clinton's
unfounded statement that snipers
attacked her when she was in Bosnia
in the 1990s.
"It's not personal attacks.
It's records on what they
have said." -
Zachary Moller
UF College Democrats president

"Both have made the most out of
those gaffes," Smith said. "It's easy
pickings."
While in some sense, he said,
Republicans should be pleased to
watch the Democratic candidates
criticize each other, Democrats
might ultimately be doing each
other a favor.
By the time a Democratic can-

didate is selected, presumptive
Republican nominee Sen. John
McCain will seem like he is bringing
up old issues if he attacks his op-
ponent for shortcomings that have
already been exposed.
Zachary Moller, president of UF's
College Democrats, said he didn't
find the ads offensive enough to
turn him off to either candidate.
"It's not personal attacks. It's
records on what they have said,"
Moller said. "This is a campaign.
Stuff like this is going to happen in
the fall."
But he did say he'd prefer it if the
Democratic candidates would attack
McCain instead of each other.
"I think that would be more pro-
ductive, but I'm not running their
campaigns," he said.
Though some have said the attack
ads could drive Democratic support-
ers to vote for McCain, Smith said he
didn't think it would happen.
"Even if they're not happy about
it, they're less happy about the last
eight years under George Bush," he
said.

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Sports
TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2008

ALLIGATOR
www.alligatorSports.org

2008 BEIJING SUMMER GAMES

Lochte hopes Gainesville training yields Olympic glory

By NICK ZACCARDI
Alligator Staff Writer
nzaccardi@alligator.org

Bad luck first struck Ryan
Lochte on June 30, 1985..
That was the day Michael
Phelps was born.
Lochte was a month shy of his
first birthday in New York when
Phelps was delivered in Baltimore,
Md.
It's not known how long it took
Phelps to crawl or walk, but he
quickly caught Lochte, passed him
and left him in his wake on the in-
ternational swimming scene.
At any other time in the his-
tory of the sport, Lochte would be
looked at as the biggest fish.
But not now, not when Phelps is
busy breaking records that Lochte
would have held, wearing med-
als Lochte could have owned and
appearing on magazine covers
Lochte should have graced.
Tough luck.
Hoping to change his fortune,
Lochte has returned to UF to train
with the Gators swimming team
and its coach, Gregg Troy, for the
Beijing Olympics.
In Lochte's typically laid-
back, mellowed-out manner, he
described what it's like to be at
school, but not in school.
"If I want to take a nap, I can
take a nap," said Lochte, who is an
internship away from graduating

with a degree in sports manage-
ment.
Phelps is more of the com-
petitive sort. When Ian Crocker
handed Phelps his only loss at
the 2003 World Championships,
Phelps reportedly pinned a photo
of Crocker in his room as motiva-
tion and beat Crocker a year later
in the Olympics.
"They're the No. 1 and
No. 2 best swimmers in
the world in a multitude of
events."
Steve Lochte
Ryan Lochte's father

Phelps is ranked among the top
three swimmers in the world in
six of the 13 individual Olympic
events.
He won a record eight medals
at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Lochte, 23, is starting to make
waves, too.
He joined Phelps in Athens
and flew back to Gainesville with
a substantially lighter medal haul
- one gold, one silver but still a
great reward for his first Olympic
experience.
Since then, he has closed in on
his good friend Phelps and now
has him in his sights heading into
the Beijing Olympics, which begin
on Aug. 8.
Lochte is the only swimmer

in the world who can hang with
Phelps in the individual medley
events, the best tests of swim-
ming because they include all
four strokes: butterfly, backstroke,
breaststroke and freestyle.
"Sure, they're rivals," said
Lochte's father and- longtime

coach, Steve. "They're the No. 1
and No. 2 best swimmers in the
world in a multitude of events. It's
healthy competition. Bottom line
is Ryan would love to continue to
excel and become better."
It's not like Lochte has Phelps'
mug shot fitted into the side of his

bathroom mirror.
But the thoughts must be_ fere,
maybe even in his dreams.
I've got to swim faster than
Michael.
I've got to be better than Michael.
I've got to beat Michael.
SEE LOCHTE, PAGE 22

Former UF swimmer Ryan Lochte comes up for air while he swims the breaststroke during one of his
practice sessions with the UF swimming team as part of his preparation for the 2008 Olympics. Lochte
returned to Gainesville to train with coach Gregg Troy and practices with the UF swimming team daily.

Columnist recalls past successes, failures along storied UFjourney

I've dreaded writing this column for a
while now.
No, not just because I'm incredibly
lazy, but because saying goodbye is some-
thing that has always been difficult for me.
My Alligator career did not have the sto-
rybook ending I envisioned when I ventured
into the paper's open house more than three
years ago without clips, experience or a clue
of what I was getting myself into.
In fact, it appears that my experiment
with sportswriting may be coming to an
end. I don't question that I have the abil-
ity to do this for a living, but I do question
whether I have the passion for this job to do
it for the rest of my life.
But working for the Alligator has been
something I will always remember and al-
ways treasure.

I've accomplished quite a bit over the
past several years.
I've filled the role of reporter, columnist,
editor, assistant editor and online editor for
the sports department and covered every-
thing from sports clubs to volleyball and
baseball to football and men's basketball.
I've traveled to sporting events all across
the southeast and covered the BCS National
Championship Game in Arizona.
I've had articles published in newspapers
and Web sites across the country, and I even
got the chance to be interviewed on radio
stations throughout the nation.
And I've somehow managed to piss
off a lot of people along the way. I'll never
forget the massive amount of hate mail I've
received. I've been called just about every
name you can imagine, and some of them

Sl a aren't even true.
I have also been
fortunate enough
to cover a national
championship foot-
Bryan Jones ball team from spring
Bryan Out Loud practice all the way
bjones@alligator.org through the trophy
presentation, and I
covered bits and piec-
es of a national championship basketball
team. Getting a chance to document some-
thing like that is a sportswriter's dream, and
I am thankful I got that opportunity.
I'll try to avoid turning this into some-
thing that resembles a lame Oscar speech,
but there are some people I have to thank for
helping me along the way.
A big Bryan Out Loud thanks to Andrew

Abramson for giving me a chance when
nobody else would and for believing in me
and doing everything in his power to help
me succeed.
I'd also like to thank Louis Anastasis for
giving me an opportunity to work alongside
him during a hectic 2006 fall semester and
showing me the ropes. You've been a good
friend to me even if I don't agree with any-
thing you say.
Jenna Marina and Brian Steele, thanks for
always being people I could rely on when
I needed help. I regret having had so many
messes for you guys to clean up, but I'll
never forget how unselfish you have been.
Watch out for Mike McCall someday. He
is a rock star. 'Nuff said.

* The No. 2 UF gymnastics team will compete in Session I
of the NCAA Championships on Thursday, and the Gators
will advance to Friday's Super Six finals if they finish in the
top three of their session. See Wednesday's Alligator for a
look at this weekend's competition.

22, ALLIGATOR E TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2008

Lochte, Phelps will face off in June's long-anticipated Olympic trials

LOCHTE, from page 21

Then BEEEEEPPPPPP!!!
Thi alarm blares at 5 in the
morning.
Beating Phelps means Lochte
must be up before the sun. -
As he rises, Lochte is quickly re-
minded of what he must improve
upon from his experience at the
2004,lympics.
"Don't eat McDonald's every
day for seven straight days," said
Lochte, who arrived in Athens at
181 pounds and left at 194 thanks
to frequent trips to the fast-food
chain in the athletes' village.
So he rips open a granola bar,
grabs some fruit, guzzles some
Orange juice and jets off to prac-
tice from 6 to 8:30 with younger
swimmers who see Lochte as a
role model.
"You're able to put a face on the
goal, to see what good swimming
is," said UP sophomore Clark
Burckle, who lives with Ryan in
an off-campus house. "I think he
makes everybody step it up more
because they all see what he's
achieved and they want to do that,
too, so it just makes the team better
as a whole."
Lochte dries himself off, drinks

a shake and lifts weights for an-
other 90 minutes.
After a long morning's work,
he drives his 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe
back home, looking to see the one
who loves him no matter what.
His Doberman pinscher, Carter,
waits for breakfast ,while Lochte
feeds himself eggs, pancakes or
waffles before taking a nap.
Practice starts again at 1 p.m.
All this for the Olympics?
"It's a great
honor to swim
for my country,
but I don't re-
ally think about
(Beijing)," said
Lochte, who
in his free time
Phelps draws abstracts,
like rain drops
falling up from the ground into
the sky. "I treat every swim meet
the same as every dual meet (in
college). I've been doing it for so
long."
Lochte has less than four
months to get into Olympic shape.
He struggled mightily in his
first big meet of 2008, the Missouri
Grand Prix in February, sliding to
sixth in two backstroke events --
including one he holds the world
record in and finishing out of

in The following are the members of the UF swimming
team who will represent their countries in the 2008
|n T|ft( Summer Olympics in Beijing. Team U.S.A. doesn't
Hold its trials until late June.

Gemma Spofforth, sophomore, Great Britain
*first OF female in any sport to qualify for the Olympics.

Mikala Kuchera / Alligator Staff

the top 10 in four other races.
By contrast, Phelps won four of
his seven events.
But Lochte came back strong at
the short-course world champion-
ships two weeks ago.
He set four world records and
won the 100- and 200-meter indi-
vidual medleys without Phelps in
the field.
Lochte and Phelps will go
head to head again, in June at the
Olympic trials in the most antici-
pated non-Olympic or non-World
Championship meet in recent his-
tory.
"It's every bit as challenging to
make the U.S. team as it is to get a
medal at the Olympics," Troy said.
"Everyone who takes it for granted
is making a mistake."
Lochte will text message Phelps
from time to time, but swimming
won't come up.
Instead, they banter about their
favorite rappers.
Lochte favors Lil' Wayne.
"'It's tight.' That's about all that
is said between us," Lochte said.
Like Phelps, Lochte lets his
results and his endorsements do
more talking for him.
Lochte made sure he would be
remembered upon winning the
200-meter individual medley at
the 2007 World Championships.
After receiving his gold medal
and standing for the national an-
them, Lochte smiled and.revealed
a sparkling silver, diamond-en-
crusted grill, a mold that fits over
teeth, after being dared by his
roommate, fellow swimmer Cullen
Jones.
"It got to the point where I was
like, 'If I get a medal at this point,
I'll wear them on the podium.'
They were like, 'No you won't.
No you won't,'" Lochte said.
"Everyone was in shock that I did
that."
That included Troy.
"I wasn't wild about the idea,"
he admitted, "but it was done
tastefully."

Casey Brooke Lawson Alligator
Lochte, wearing a white swimming cap, and his former UF team-
mates prepare to begin a morning strength drill in the O'Connell
Center pool. Lochte hopes to compete in this summer's Olympics.

Speedo pays the bills for Lochte,
who swims in the company's sleek
LZR Racer suit.
Lochte also recently did a "Got
Milk?" ad and flew to New York
for a "Today" Show appearance
where Matt Lauer mispronounced
his last name.
All the attention is partially
due to his perceived rivalry with
Phelps.

But for Lochte (pronounced
Lock-tee), it's much more than
that.
"Even if I do beat him, I guess I
still won't be satisfied with swim-
ming," said Lochte, who already
has plans for the 2012 Olympics in
London. "I set my goals that way. I
won't be satisfied until I stop mak-
ing goals."

It took a little bit longer than
expected, but the preseason pre-
diction made by UF coach Tim
Walton has finally come true.
"She's going to struggle,"
he said of the expectations sur-
rounding freshman pitcher
Stephanie Brombacher. "She's
going to get hit.
"She's going to give up some
home runs."
Through the non-conference
schedule, and at times in confer-
ence play, it looked as though he
might be wrong about the fresh-
man sensation.
It seemed as if she could be
dominant without paying any
dues.
Brombacher carried an ERA
of close to 1, along with an un-
defeated record, into the rough
Southeastern Conference slate.
As No. 3 UF (51-2, 21-1 SEC)
prepares to host Jacksonville (21-
37, 5-17 Atlantic Sun) in a double-
header Tuesday, her undefeated
record is still intact (16-0), but
the freshman has looked more
hittable than ever lately.
In eight starts and nine appear-

ances in the SEC, Brombacher has
posted a 2.10 ERA and allowed
opponents to bat .239 against her
while throwing just two complete
games.
For almost any other pro-
gram, those numbers would be
enough.
But for a team about to make a
championship push, it needs the
No. 2 starter to stay in the circle
for as long as possible.
"I've never really had any
arm problems, knock on
wood. I feel strong right
now."
Stacey Nelson
UFjunior pitcher

Junior Stacey Nelson (33-2,
0.71 ERA) has been better than
advertised in her junior cam-
paign, but there's one number
that should cause coaches and
fans alike some concern.
In the last two years as the ace
of the staff, Nelson has pitched
545 innings.
After last weekend's series
with Kentucky, Walton said he
wants to rest Nelson when he can
but has to go to her when he feels
the game is on the line.
"I'm not going to worry unless
she gives me a reason to worry,"
Walton said.

Recently he has used his No. 1
hurler extensively, starting her in
two of the three games in a series
.and bringing her in to close the
third.
"I've never really had any
arm problems, knock on wood,"
Nelson said. "I feel strong right
now."
If UF is going to capture an
SEC title and make a first-ever
College World Series appear-
ance, Nelson is going to need
Brombacher to help her shoulder
the load.
"She's continued to make
good strides for us and provide
a good amount of inning lift,"
Walton said in a press conference
Monday.
Saturday's performance
against the Wildcats was the
worst of Brombacher's young
career.
Predictably, Nelson came
in and saved the win when it
looked like the game might get
away from the Gators, the same
way she has all season.
As UF turns the final cor-
ner and makes its stretch run,
Brombacher will have the oppor-
tunity to return the favor.
The team will count on her
to save Nelson's arm and, ulti-
mately, the dream of becoming
the first-ever SEC team to win a
national championship.